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CORINTH INFORMATION DATABASE VERSION 1.3

(c) 1995 Milton Sandy, Jr.

BROOKS, JONATHAN HENDERSON - 1905-1945

Jonathan Henderson Brooks, Baptist minister and poet, was born
in Lexington, Mississippi, on 10 July 1905. Mr. Brooks attended high
school in Missouri and was a graduate of Tougaloo College, where for
three years he was employed as assistant to the President. In the
last years of his life, Mr. Brooks worked in the Post Office in
Corinth, Mississippi. He died in July of 1945; THE RESURRECTION AND
OTHER POEMS was published posthumously. F.

THE RESURRECTION AND OTHER POEMS. Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1948.

Source: James B. Lloyd, Editor. LIVES OF MISSISSIPPI AUTHORS,
1817-1967, p.54-55. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1981.

From: The Daily Corinthian, Centennial Edition, Sunday, 2 May 1954.

Jonathan Brooks-...lived up the hill here on 5th St...came to Corinth to
join his wife who was a faculty member at Scale St. School...sons Bill &
Joel.

Data transcription by: Milton Sandy, Jr. March 25, 1993

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